The whole Barn has fallen in on itself in the last 2 days
I have been forced to hide behind the Couch as a parade of Pitchers you NEVER ever wanna see stroll in & get "torched" & destroy any remaining & lingering hopes of a comeback !
But we just need to win 1 game of Baseball - it's not impossible & we have done it before
Win Game 6
Worry about Game 7 ..... IF we get there
We need Nate to help turn the tide & the Offense needs to reappear from out of the Swamp, or wherever it has gone to
The last 2 games almost everybody has been swinging too early in the count - even "Kyle the Kareful" has looked dreadful at times ! Generally he's the most patient with the best sense of the strike zone.
The last 4 Games has seen a single half innings "obliterate" the Game - that's all it has taken to win
I fancy that Game 6 ( & hopefully 7 ) will look far more like Game 1 - close & lower scoring ?
We need to grind out a win to flip the script back & put the pressure back on the home team
So can we win a Game with a score of say 3-1, 4-2, 5-3 etc.
Well it amounts to Nate Pitching a Cracker for 5-6 & Houck, Whitlock, Pivetta etc. putting the rest together & can that lot limit Houston to say 1-2-3-4 runs at most ?
It is possible & I would suggest that Alvarez, Gurriel & Tucker are the main dangers for mine - get those 3 out consistently & it is indeed possible
So really it may boil down to the old chestnut of hitting with RISP
Think I saw the stat last night for the last 2 games & it was something like 5/18 v 0/18 !!! It seems like 0/625 .....
Change that & we can win Game 6
That is ultimately the simple truth - we don't have to score a dozen, just a handful might do it ?
Can we squeeze out a win & push it the distance to that fabled friend or foe - Game 7
Despite the last 2 nights from Hell ...... I am still hopeful, I don't really know why ? Maybe just a hunch I had from the start of the ALCS that we would see a Game 7 ?
Everybody wrote Houston off days ago
Now everybody is writing The Sox off
They were wrong then
They are wrong now
You don't make it this far to roll over & go home when it gets a bit tricky
thanks for another great write up Matt!
It feels to me a lot like when left BAL & headed to DC having dropped 5 of 6 and we all know what happened after that, right?
Basically we just hit the shits !!!!!!
The whole Barn has fallen in on itself in the last 2 days
I have been forced to hide behind the Couch as a parade of Pitchers you NEVER ever wanna see stroll in & get "torched" & destroy any remaining & lingering hopes of a comeback !
But we just need to win 1 game of Baseball - it's not impossible & we have done it before
Win Game 6
Worry about Game 7 ..... IF we get there
We need Nate to help turn the tide & the Offense needs to reappear from out of the Swamp, or wherever it has gone to
The last 2 games almost everybody has been swinging too early in the count - even "Kyle the Kareful" has looked dreadful at times ! Generally he's the most patient with the best sense of the strike zone.
The last 4 Games has seen a single half innings "obliterate" the Game - that's all it has taken to win
I fancy that Game 6 ( & hopefully 7 ) will look far more like Game 1 - close & lower scoring ?
We need to grind out a win to flip the script back & put the pressure back on the home team
So can we win a Game with a score of say 3-1, 4-2, 5-3 etc.
Well it amounts to Nate Pitching a Cracker for 5-6 & Houck, Whitlock, Pivetta etc. putting the rest together & can that lot limit Houston to say 1-2-3-4 runs at most ?
It is possible & I would suggest that Alvarez, Gurriel & Tucker are the main dangers for mine - get those 3 out consistently & it is indeed possible
So really it may boil down to the old chestnut of hitting with RISP
Think I saw the stat last night for the last 2 games & it was something like 5/18 v 0/18 !!! It seems like 0/625 .....
Change that & we can win Game 6
That is ultimately the simple truth - we don't have to score a dozen, just a handful might do it ?
Can we squeeze out a win & push it the distance to that fabled friend or foe - Game 7
Despite the last 2 nights from Hell ...... I am still hopeful, I don't really know why ? Maybe just a hunch I had from the start of the ALCS that we would see a Game 7 ?
Everybody wrote Houston off days ago
Now everybody is writing The Sox off
They were wrong then
They are wrong now
You don't make it this far to roll over & go home when it gets a bit tricky
I still believe
I know Alex Cora & all the players still do too
It's up to Nate
He has the ball
He sets the Tone ......